Israel's parliament passed a temporary exemption shielding tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men from military service and prosecution until November. The military's chief of staff called the law 'inconceivable,' while Netanyahu needed the vote to keep his coalition intact.
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NPR's Sydney Lupkin takes a close look at Trump Rx, the administration's new prescription drug discount website [1] — Sydney Lupkin "Trump Rx lists 92 brand-name drugs at a discount, but that's a fraction of the 800+ drugs participating companies actually sell. Harvard's …" 01:20 . The site lists 92 brand-name drugs at reduced prices for people who are not using insurance — but that number is a sliver of the more than 800 drugs that the 17 participating companies sell. Two holdouts, Gilead and Regeneron, have not yet added drugs but have each promised to list one. Harvard Medical School's Dr. Ben Rome offers a blunt assessment: most companies are doing this for a small number of products in a limited setting, with no indication of large-scale engagement. The practical upshot, Rome says, is that patients with health insurance will almost certainly find a better deal by staying with their insurance co-pay — leaving Trump Rx most useful for a niche group, such as those needing IVF-related drugs not covered by their plans.
Trump Rx lists 92 brand-name drugs available at a discount for people not using insurance, a fraction of the 800+ drugs these companies market.
Harvard health policy researcher Dr. Ben Rome says people with insurance should stick to their co-pay rather than use Trump Rx.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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